Website: www.eciad.ca/~jandreyeJulie Andreyev's work is influenced by forms within popular entertainment and car cultures, and interactive, mobile technologies. The most recent projects involve multi-media interactive cars: Four-Wheel Drift 1 was performed in 2004 at Interactive Futures, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival. In 2003, VJ-Fleet was performed in the New Forms Festival in Vancouver and shown at: ORB//Remote: Global Scrambling, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark; at MAD '03NET 2nd International Meeting of Experimental Arts in Madrid where it received a Project Award; and at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo in 2004. VJ-Fleet was nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive Arts Installation Award. Four-Wheel Drift (re-mix) was performed during her residency at Splintermind, Stockholm in Spring 2004, sponsored by the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. Andreyev was recently awarded a Strategic Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Andreyev is Associate Professor at the Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design & Media.

Interactive Futures '09: Stereo (IF'09: Stereo) will be hosted by the Intersections Digital Studios at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. IF'09: Stereo offers a broad thematic reading of "stereo" to include research and art works that use techniques and devices to lure the body into ephemeral spaces. Examples include stereographic films and animations, linked interactive performance spaces, simulated touch interfaces, binaural sound works, and mixed-reality art works. IF'09: Stereo has invited practitioners who are working with subtle uses of immersive techniques, illusionary space and objects, and telepresence that evoke unexpected responses and challenge the modes of creation used by popular entertainment media and technologies ..>read more at www.interactivefutures.ca

The seventh annual Interactive Futures forum for showing recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year’s event is The New Screen.

Interactive Futures 07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances, new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.

Interactive Futures: The New ScreenNov. 15-19, 2007 - Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaPart of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (VIFVF)Co-sponsored by Open Space Artist-Run Centre - http://www.openspace.ca/DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO: MONDAY JUNE 25, 2007.

2007 Theme: The New ScreenINTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year's event is The New Screen. IF07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances (with or without sound), new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.

The development of tools and strategies for the presentation of screen-based environments has radically accelerated in the past few years. Artists and writers are exploring new ways of controlling narrative flow, formal structures, and ways of viewing. Immersive tools for experiencing visual environments have allowed artists to provide radically subjective experiences of visual surroundings and forms. With the introduction of interactivity, multi-screen environments, and media-rich web-based applications, a new era of performed, live, streaming and/or improvised media art is contributing to the creation of new modes for the screen that are distinct from older forms such as print, film or video art.

The New Screen will include installations, screenings and performances by visual artists, writers and performers. These practitioners are critiquing usual modes of visual interface, such as rectangular screens and determined techniques of interactivity. Interventionist strategies, public participation, experimental projection methods, and destabilizing interactive interfaces are some of the approaches that are used in their work. For IF07, leading Canadian and international artists, researchers, and educators working with screen-based media have been invited to present their work and to participate in the installation, performance, and panel events.

IF07 is seeking further papers, artists' presentations, performances and screenings related to the theme described above. Screenings may include demonstrations and/or documentation of screen-based, interactive and installation projects. Successful submissions will be selected for their critical, innovative and aesthetic tendencies.

Note: We are not currently soliciting proposals for installations as these have been filled by the invited artists listed below.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS

Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her most recent novel, A Little Stranger, was published in January 2006. Other books include the novels Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane, and Where Does Kissing End? She co-wrote the novel of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. She also writes for digital media; her multimedia online novel, Inanimate Alice, created with digital artist babel, won the first prize for Digital Art 2005, sponsored by MAXXI, the Museum of the Twenty-First Century in Rome, and Fondazione Rosselli (http://www.inanimatealice.com/). Kate Pullinger grew up outside Victoria, BC, but currently lives in London.

Peter Horvath works in video, sound, photo and new media. He immersed himself in digital technologies at the birth of the Web, co founded 6168.org, a site for net.art, and adopted techniques of photomontage which he uses in his net- and print-based works. Exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Art‘s Artport, the 18th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), the Musee national des beaux- arts du Quebec (Quebec City, Canada), as well as venues in New York, Tokyo, London, and numerous net.art showings. A founding member of the net.art collective Hell.com, he likes to consider a future when high bandwidth will be free. For IF07, Peter will present his work in the form of a performance lecture/artist talk.

David Hoffos received a BFA with great distinction from the University of Lethbridge. Since 1992 Hoffos has maintained an active exhibition schedule - with over 30 solo exhibitions, including Catastrophe, 1998 (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary; Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; Or Gallery, Vancouver; and Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga) and Another City, 1999-2002 (Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Trepanier Baer, Calgary; Joao Graca, Lisbon; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and Musee des Beaux-Arts, Montreal). In 2003 Hoffos launched the first phase of Scenes from the House Dream, a five-year series of linked installations. His single-channel work has been shown in festivals in over twenty countries. David Hoffos lives and works in Lethbridge. He is represented by Trepanier Baer, Calgary.

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is interested in artistic and theoretical work that relates to screen-based new media art.

•Papers, Panels, and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs, video tapes, games, web-sites, etc. and should be 45-minutes in length. •Proposed artwork for exhibition may take the form of performances or screenings.•Applications should not exceed 500 words. Please include a 200 word max bio. •All proposals must be submitted in text only format either as an attachment or within the body of the email message. •Please present examples of your work as a URL to a web-site.•If your presentation requires specific technologies please describe your needs in detail.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to ONE of the following persons:

INTERACTIVE FUTURES does not have funding for travel or accommodation for paper presenters. Paper and panel presenters are expected to apply for travel funding from their home institutions and/or granting bodies. INTERACTIVE FUTURES has obtained modest funding to pay for travel, hotel and artist fees for performance and screen-based artists exhibiting at Open Space. Performance and screen-based artists will receive an artist fee according to CARFAC (http://www.carfac.ca/) regulations.

All presenters and artists will be eligible for the conference rate at Festival Hotels (between $40-125 per night). Passes for Interactive Futures will be priced at $75 for all artists and paper presenters.

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO: MONDAY JUNE 25, 2007.

Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or around Friday July 6, 2007.

The following equipment is available for artists at Open Space. Artists should be aware that equipment may have to be shared and therefore should not propose to use all of the below devices simultaneously. Performances should be easy to set-up and take down. Wherever possible artists should supply their own technology.

Interactive Futures: The New ScreenNov. 15-19, 2007 - Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaPart of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (VIFVF)Co-sponsored by Open Space Artist-Run Centre - http://www.openspace.ca/

2007 Theme: The New ScreenINTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year's event is The New Screen. IF07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances (with or without sound), new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.

The development of tools and strategies for the presentation of screen-based environments has radically accelerated in the past few years. Artists and writers are exploring new ways of controlling narrative flow, formal structures, and ways of viewing. Immersive tools for experiencing visual environments have allowed artists to provide radically subjective experiences of visual surroundings and forms. With the introduction of interactivity, multi-screen environments, and media-rich web-based applications, a new era of performed, live, streaming and/or improvised media art is contributing to the creation of new modes for the screen that are distinct from older forms such as print, film or video art.

The New Screen will include installations, screenings and performances by visual artists, writers and performers. These practitioners are critiquing usual modes of visual interface, such as rectangular screens and determined techniques of interactivity. Interventionist strategies, public participation, experimental projection methods, and destabilizing interactive interfaces are some of the approaches that are used in their work. For IF07, leading Canadian and international artists, researchers, and educators working with screen-based media have been invited to present their work and to participate in the installation, performance, and panel events.

IF07 is seeking further papers, artists' presentations, performances and screenings related to the theme described above. Screenings may include demonstrations and/or documentation of screen-based, interactive and installation projects. Successful submissions will be selected for their critical, innovative and aesthetic tendencies.

Note: We are not currently soliciting proposals for installations as these have been filled by the invited artists listed below.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS

Kate Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her most recent novel, A Little Stranger, was published in January 2006. Other books include the novels Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane, and Where Does Kissing End? She co-wrote the novel of the film The Piano with director Jane Campion. She also writes for digital media; her multimedia online novel, Inanimate Alice, created with digital artist babel, won the first prize for Digital Art 2005, sponsored by MAXXI, the Museum of the Twenty-First Century in Rome, and Fondazione Rosselli (http://www.inanimatealice.com/). Kate Pullinger grew up outside Victoria, BC, but currently lives in London.

Peter Horvath works in video, sound, photo and new media. He immersed himself in digital technologies at the birth of the Web, co founded 6168.org, a site for net.art, and adopted techniques of photomontage which he uses in his net- and print-based works. Exhibitions include the Whitney Museum Of American Art‘s Artport, the 18th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), the Musee national des beaux- arts du Quebec (Quebec City, Canada), as well as venues in New York, Tokyo, London, and numerous net.art showings. A founding member of the net.art collective Hell.com, he likes to consider a future when high bandwidth will be free. For IF07, Peter will present his work in the form of a performance lecture/artist talk.

David Hoffos received a BFA with great distinction from the University of Lethbridge. Since 1992 Hoffos has maintained an active exhibition schedule - with over 30 solo exhibitions, including Catastrophe, 1998 (Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary; Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; Or Gallery, Vancouver; and Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga) and Another City, 1999-2002 (Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Trepanier Baer, Calgary; Joao Graca, Lisbon; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and Musee des Beaux-Arts, Montreal). In 2003 Hoffos launched the first phase of Scenes from the House Dream, a five-year series of linked installations. His single-channel work has been shown in festivals in over twenty countries. David Hoffos lives and works in Lethbridge. He is represented by Trepanier Baer, Calgary.

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is interested in artistic and theoretical work that relates to screen-based new media art.

•Papers, Panels, and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs, video tapes, games, web-sites, etc. and should be 45-minutes in length. •Proposed artwork for exhibition may take the form of performances or screenings.•Applications should not exceed 500 words. Please include a 200 word max bio. •All proposals must be submitted in text only format either as an attachment or within the body of the email message. •Please present examples of your work as a URL to a web-site.•If your presentation requires specific technologies please describe your needs in detail.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to ONE of the following persons:

INTERACTIVE FUTURES does not have funding for travel or accommodation for paper presenters. Paper and panel presenters are expected to apply for travel funding from their home institutions and/or granting bodies. INTERACTIVE FUTURES has obtained modest funding to pay for travel, hotel and artist fees for performance and screen-based artists exhibiting at Open Space. Performance and screen-based artists will receive an artist fee according to CARFAC (http://www.carfac.ca/) regulations.

All presenters and artists will be eligible for the conference rate at Festival Hotels (between $40-125 per night). Passes for Interactive Futures will be priced at $75 for all artists and paper presenters.

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Monday June 18, 2007.

Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or around Monday July 2, 2007.EQUIPMENT ACCESS

The following equipment is available for artists at Open Space. Artists should be aware that equipment may have to be shared and therefore should not propose to use all of the below devices simultaneously. Performances should be easy to set-up and take down. Wherever possible artists should supply their own technology.

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is a forum for showing recent tendencies in new media art as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year's event is Audio Visions. IF06 will explore new forms of audio-based media art from a diverse body of artists, theorists, and sound practitioners. Sound poetry, web-based audio and multimedia, mobile audio performance, new forms of music theatre, synaesthetic performance, hybrid forms, sound-based installation, video and sound, and environmental sound are all of interest to Audio Visions.

The proliferation of audio technologies, audio-visual collaboration, and hybrid forms of live performance in the new millennium is striking. Audio artists are exploring the areas of mobility, virtuality, performance, and audience interaction from an experimental point-of-view. Audio Visions invites scholars, sound-artists, and performers of all stripes to submit paper, panel, performance or installation proposals in one of the three following categories.

1."Sound and Vision" lecture and panel series - Scholars, artists, and practitioners working in audio or audio-visual-based new media are encouraged to submit proposals for IF06. We are interested in a broad range of audio including: computational, interactive or generative audio; the creation of digital audio tools; synchronization between sound and visuals; performative art that explores language, voice and body; streaming radio and mobile sound works. Presentations should be, in part, demonstrative. We recognize that sound art is evolving and that categories have become increasingly irrelevant - we encourage proposals that push the boundaries of the traditional conference paper.

2."Earshot" performance series - "Earshot" is seeking experimental audio-based performances that challenge assumptions about audio forms and performance conventions. Avant-garde, post-avant-garde, techno, electro-acoustic, synaesthetic production, liminal art and hybrid performance are all within our desired range. "Earshot" is primarily interested in new types of electronic audio-visual performance as well as models for audience participation in sound works. "Earshot" will run performances at Open Space for each night of IF06.

3."Tangible Frequencies" installations - We are interested in audio installation works that consider site, space, vision, volume and perception and how physical location 'matters' to the reception of audio frequencies. IF06 has identified areas within Open Space Gallery to function as controlled locations for sound installations.* We welcome proposals that respond to the particular characteristics of these locations through their acknowledgement of private and/or public space and use. Installations may provide audio continuity to the existing locations, or respond as intervention and critique.

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is part of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival and applicants are encouraged to check the Festival website for more information on the broader program.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS / ARTISTS

•Greg Hermanovic of Derivative software is a visionary software-engineer involved in the creation of real-time visual tools. In 2003 he received an Academy Award for the pioneering of modeling in the film industry with PRISMS and Houdini. Greg coordinated the realtime animation at SIGGRAPH 98's Interactive Dance Club, and directed special effects for Michael Snow's Corpus Callosum. Derivative’s Touch software, a range of tactile interfaces, brings advanced realtime animation tools to a diverse cross-section of artists, including Richie Hawtin and Rush. Greg will perform live visuals with Toronto-based DJ Tom Kuo. •Tom Kuo uses a grounding in techno to pursue a varied range of precise electronic strains. Tom was recently named one of Toronto’s Top Ten DJs by NOW magazine.•Atau Tanaka is known for his work in interactive music, including performances with biosignal gesture systems. He has conducted research at IRCAM in Paris and was Artistic Ambassador of Apple Computer Europe. His work with sensor-based musical instruments and network audio installations have received prizes and support from Ars Electronica, the Fraunhofer Institute, the Japan Foundation, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation. His current research at Sony CSL Paris focuses on harnessing collective musical creativity on mobile devices.•Jurg Gutknecht is a computer scientist with a passion for new hybrid art forms. He has actively participated in culturally-oriented "wearable computing" projects, including "Instant Gain in Grace" (motion tracking of a Butoh dancer), "Going Publik" (distributed orchestra based on mobile electronic scoring), and "On the Sixth Day" (multi-channel video system for interactive storytelling). Together with Sound Artist, Art Clay, he organizes the Digital Art Weeks which offers performances and provides courses in the areas of computer-aided art and music. •Art Clay is a specialist in the performance of self-created works with the use of inter-media, and has appeared at international festivals. Recently, his work has focused on large-scale performative music-theater works and public art spectacles using mobile devices.•Jim Andrews publishes vispo.com. It is the centre of his work as a visual poet, audio artist, programmer, and critic. His work in interactive audio and word-based web media has been published and shown widely in such venues as rhizome.org, turbulence.org, and the trAce Online Writing Centre. Since 1999, he has been creating interactive audio at vispo.com/vismu.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

INTERACTIVE FUTURES is interested in artistic and theoretical work that relates to audio performance, production and hybrid forms.

•Papers, Panels, and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs, video tapes, games, web-sites, etc. and should be 45-minutes in length. •Proposed artwork for exhibition may take the form of performances ("Earshot"), installations ("Tangible Frequencies"), or audio-related screenings ("Earshot" or "Tangible Frequencies"). •Applications should not exceed 500 words. Applicants should indicate one of the three festival categories in the subject of the message. Please include a 200 word max bio. •All proposals must be submitted in text only format either as an attachment or within the body of the email message. •Please present examples of your work as a URL to a web-site.•If your presentation requires specific technologies please describe your needs in detail.

Proposals should be submitted electronically to ONE of the following persons:

Please indicate a preference for one of the above areas in your proposal. Artists should keep in mind that Open Space is a shared space and therefore low volume will be required. Other venues may be organized by special arrangement if louder volume is required.

FUNDING

INTERACTIVE FUTURES does not have funding for travel or accommodation. Presenters and artists are expected to apply for travel funding from their home institutions and/or granting bodies. INTERACTIVE FUTURES is applying for funding for performance and installation artists exhibiting at Open Space. If this funding is obtained, performance and installation artists will receive a modest fee according to CARFAC (http://www.carfac.ca/) regulations.

All presenters and artists will be given a pass to all INTERACTIVE FUTURES events and will have access to the “Hospitality Suite” at the Festival hotel (food and drinks). All presenters and artists will be eligible for the conference rate at Festival Hotels (between $40-110 per night).

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Friday, September 23, 2005.

Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before October 7, 2005.

The following equipment is available for artists at Open Space. Artists should be aware that equipment will have to be shared and therefore should not propose to use all of the below devices simultaneously. Installations and performances should be easy to set-up and take down. Wherever possible artists should apply their own technology.